Events
02.03
PANEL DISCUSSION
Defining Cultural Landscapes - Nicodemus, Kansas
Negotiating National Heritage and a Living Landscape
Sciame Auditorium - Room 107 - February 3rd 6:00 - 8:00
Welcome:
Dean George Ranalli, Dean, Spitzer School of Architecture
Opening remarks:
Olympia Kazi, Director, Van Alen Institute
Shaun Eyring, Chief, Division of Resource Planning & Compliance, National Park Service Northeast Region
Introduc6on to Nicodemus Na6onal Historic Site:
Mark Weaver, Superintendent Nicodemus National Historic
Site Panel:
Charles Birnbaum, President, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Setha Low, Professor of Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dr. Clement Price, Professor of Humanities, Rutgers
University and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Moderated by: Toni L. Griffin, Director, the J. Max Bond Center, CCNY
02.03
SEMINAR
A Seminar with Andres Duany
"Agrarian Urbanism"
Room 107 - 11:00 - 1:00
SPRING 2012 lecture series
"HISTORY REVISITED"
12.12.11
NAAB Student Work Exhibit Opens
Monday, December 12th through February 13th
Weekdays - 9 am to 5 pm. Through February 13th - (Room 128 through Jan 13th)
The exhibit curated and prepared for the late October visit of the NAAB visiting team is now open in the Spitzer Main Gallery and in Room 128.
photo: Albert Vicerka - ESTO
The exhibit includes several student studio projects from each semester of the Bachelor of Architecture (5-Year) program and the Master of Architecture (3-Year) Program. Also there is technology, digital media and visual studies work exhibited.
11.10.11
Graduate Programs Open House
An Introduction to the Graduate Programs in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
11:00 - 12:00 - Introduction of programs by Dean George Ranalli; and the directors, Hillary Brown for Sustainability in the Urban Environment; Denise Hoffman-Brandt for Master of Landscape Architecture; Bradley Horn for Master of Architecture; and, Michael Sorkin for Master of Urban Design. Question and Answer period follows.
12:00 - 2:00 - Student Rap Session - Tour of the School - Lunch (provided by SSA)
2:00 - 6:00 -
Pin-ups. Students will present their projects, and will be critiqued by faculty and visiting architects.
6:00- Sciame Fall 2011 Lecture Series on Academic Practice
Speaker: Toshiko Mori, Blurring the Boundaries
11.15.11
B.Arch Info Night
The Bachelor of Architecture program is holding an event beginning at 5:00 pm for students interested in entering fall 2012. Activities will include tours of the SSA building, visits to studios and labs, a question and answer period with advisors and faculty, and a chance to meet current students. The “creative challenge” – required of all applicants to first year – will be described and discussed. Light snacks will be served. RSVP to amelendez@ccny.cuny.edu.
10.24.11
ALUMNI/FACULTY RECEPTION
Monday, October 26th 6:00 PM in Aaron Davis Hall
(Across from the Architecture Building)
George Ranalli, Dean of the Spitzer School,
Cordially invites all alumni to a RECEPTION For THE NAAB 2011 ACCREDITING TEAM
Meet and greet other alumni, the faculty and the 2011 Architecture Accrediting Team
The SSA architecture Bachelors and Masters and programs are being jointly visited by a NAAB Accrediting Team from October 22nd through October 26th. This reception on Oct 26th is a chance to meet the team and exchange views on the programs, the profession, and professional education.
10.17.11
"Speed Mentoring"
October 17th - 6:00 p.m. -2nd Floor SSA
A night of activities beginning at 6:00 p.m. centering on student mentoring will take place in Sciame Auditorium on Monday, October 17th. This event ,organized by The Architecture Alumni Group (AAG) of the Alumni Association, is for all students in the school but should be of particular interest to those in the fourth and fifth year of the B. Arch. Program and the last year of the M. Arch. program.
fall 2011 lecture series
"ACADEMIC PRACTICE"
Focusing on the intersection of practice and the academy, The Spitzer School Fall Lecture Series will begin on September 22nd. The series will again take place in the Sciame Auditorium located in the Spitzer School of Architecture. Lectures will begin at 6:30 pm and will be webcast and archived along with the previous year's lectures.
The entire college community and the public are cordially invited.
Speakers for this series:
09.22.11 Moshen Mostafavi
"Pedagogy of Practice"
10.06.11 Brian Healy
"Deployment"
10.13.11 Kathryn Dean
"Constructive Continuum"
10.20.11 Stanley Tigerman
"Displacement"
11.03.11 Brigitte Shim
"Always Asking Questions"
11.10.11 Toshiko Mori
"Blurring the Boundaries"
11.17.11 Mack Scogins
"Ben and Alice"
12.01.11 Joseph Tanney
"The Modern Modular:
city college solar decatahlon launch
Team NY Send-Off
Thursday, September 8th
The City College Solar Decathlon 'pod' will be toured by Lisa Staiano-Coico, President of City College, and Martin Moscovits, Provost, along with other members of the administration, alumni and friends of the Spitzer School. Very soon after, the structure will be broken down into halves, secured and loaded on trucks for its trip to Washington, D.C. There it will be re-assembled and put into operation. It is due to return around October 6th.
A PUBLIC CONVERSATION
REFLECTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE
Friday, April 8th - 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 Sciame Auditorium
William J. R. Curtis and George Ranalli have been having conversations about architecture for thirty seven years. This exchange of views began when they were both students at Harvard University and used to meet on the ramp of Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center to discuss everything from the use and abuse of the past, to the role of education, to the need for an authentic architectural language. In this event at the Spitzer School on the 8th April between 11AM and 1PM (the day after Curtis’s lecture ‘Materials of the Imagination, Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh’) Ranalli the architect and educator, and Curtis the historian, critic, photographer and artist, will continue their conversation, but this time in public. They will go where the dialogue takes them but they are likely take positions on controversies of the day, as well as longer term themes such as the role of history and theory in architectural education, and the evaluation of architectural quality in a time of rapid change.
The public is cordially invited.
04.07.11 lecture
MATERIALS OF THE IMAGINATION: Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
William J.R. Curtis
Thursday, April 7th - 6:30 p.m.
spring lecture series
MYTH, SYMBOL, AND REPRESENTATION
The Spitzer School Spring Lecture Series will begin on February 10th. The series will again be in the Sciame Auditorium located in the Spitzer School of Architecture. Lectures will begin at 6:30 pm and will be webcast.
The public is cordially invited.
Speakers for this series:
02.10.11 Anthony Vidler
Temple or Hut?: The Politics of Modern Memory
02.17.11 Friedrich St. Florian
At the Intersection Between Architecture and Public Art
02.24.11 Robert McCarter
Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn: Towards an Architecture of Presentation and Ritual
03.03.11 Brian Healy
Continuities
03.10.11 Victoria Meyers
DWiP & Sacred Architecture: Symbolism in the Digital Realm
03.17.11 Richard Etlin
Death in the Enchanted Palace: Philibert Delorme's Château d'Anet
03.24.11 Charles Beveridge
Frederick Law Olmsted: The Landscape Architect and the City
03.31.11 Thomas Beeby
The Search For Precedence: A Conversation With the Past
04.07.11 William J.R. Curtis
Materials of The Imagination: Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
11.11.10
M.Arch Prospective Student Open House
The M. Arch. program is hosting an open house for prospective students. This half-day event beginning at 11:00 am will include a brief orientation, lunch, tours of the building, opportunities to meet with current students and with faculty. Admissions and advising personnel will be available to answer questions and provide advice. Studio visits are planned and visitors are invited to stay for a lecture by Daniel Okrent on "Miracle on Fifth Avenue: How Rockefeller Center Happened”, the fifth in the Fall 2010 series. If interested in attending the open house RSVP to Sara Morales by November 5th at smorales@ccny.cuny.edu.
Brooklyn, New York.
10.25.10
Speed Mentoring
A night of activities beginning at 6:00 p.m. centering on student mentoring will take place in Sciame Auditorium on Monday, October 25th. This event ,organized by The Architecture Alumni Group (AAG) of the Alumni Association, is for all students in the school but should be of particular interest to those in the fourth and fifth year of the B. Arch. Program and the last year of the M. Arch. program.
10.25.10
Scholarship Information Session
Scholarships will be the topic of a meeting organized by Erica Torres and Prof. Irma Ostroff. Beginning at 12:30 pm in room 128. Scholarship representatives will be in attendance to answer student questions and provide guidance in pursuing scholarships and various resources for student assistance.
10.19.10
B.Arch Info Night
The Bachelor of Architecture program is holding an event beginning at 5:00 pm for students interested in entering fall 2011. Activities will include tours of the new SSA building, visits to studios and labs, a question and answer period with advisors and faculty, and a chance to meet current students. The “creative challenge” – required of all applicants to first year – will be described and discussed. Light snacks will be served. RSVP to amelendez@ccny.cuny.edu.
09.15.10
Dean Ranalli's Saratoga Project Award
The SARATOGA Avenue Community Center
in Brooklyn, New York designed by Dean George Ranalli, principal
of the firm of George Ranalli, Architect will be given
an Award of Excellence
in the Institutional category in the
AIA Brooklyn 2010 Design Awards
program. The ceremony will be
September 15, 2010 at the
Fort Hamilton Army Base,
Brooklyn, New York.
fall 2010 lecture series
New York, New York: Place, Culture, and Urbanity
All lectures start at 6:30 pm - In the SSA Sciame Auditorium in the Spitzer School of Architecture
The Public is Invited.
09.16.10 Gail Fenske
“The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York”
09.23.10 Carol Willis
“Empire State Building: Essential New York
09.30.10 Lorraine Diehl
“Pennsylvania Station: How Public Spaces Enhance Private Lives"
10.14.10 Robert Marino
“City Borne Projects: Works of Robert Marino”
10.21.10 Kevin Bone
“The Secret Life of New York City Water”
11.04.10 Samuel White
“McKim, Mead and White and the Classical Ideal"
11.11.10 Daniel Okrent
"Miracle on Fifth Avenue: How Rockefeller Center Happened”
11.18.10 Christine Roussel
“The Art of Rockefeller Center”
09.14.10 - 12.14.10
SSA Tuesday Night Film Series
SSA Tuesday Night Film Series presents SIMULACRUM. All films start at 8:30 PM in the SSA Sciame Audiotorium - Room 107.
09.14.10 Corporate modernism - "Playtime" - Jacques Tati
10.05.10 Deconstruction - "Run Lola Run" - Tom Twyker
10.26.10 Vampire double feature - "Let the Right One In" - Thomas Alfredson, and
"Nosferatu" - F.W. Murnau
11.16.10 Team 10 - "The Celebration" - Dogme 95
12.14.10 Renaissance - "Triplets of Belleville" - Silvain Chomet
Fall 2010
EXHIBIT - In the SSA Gallery Dates to be announced.
Brian Healy - "CONTINUITIES:Drawings and Models 2000-2010"
12.07.10 - 12.13.10
Public Design Reviews
The studio work of all design classes will be on exhibit day by day with on-going active reviews by SSA faculty and a host of visiting practioners and faculty from other schools. Open to the public. Watch for a detailed schedule.
